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he introduces himself saying quiet, but slipping in, firm: “something he knows for sure, no is no” I, (19, f) replying, smiling saying louder, firmer: “something she knows for sure, yes is yes” and he says “yes, ma’am,” returning her smile, so shyly, while blushing, so loudly, thinking he said something dumb, looking down at his shuffling feet, covered in worn out cowboy boots I like this guy I like this man.
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Oct 13, 2018
Oct 13, 2018 at 7:35 AM UTC
something he knows for sure
I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because the last time I opened up to someone artistically they told me it was pretty dark and I should keep it to myself. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because I was raised in a culture that was anti love and pro meaningless *** I saw endless commercials about movies that glamorize a lifestyle in which your body is fulfilled but your heart is ignored and at that impressionable age I learned my heart came second but my allure came first and the less I cared that happier I would be and I carried that belief around with me the way I used to carry around a Bible as a child. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because of the time that I opened my father’s phone to reveal a family secret I would hold to this day against my own moral instincts unraveling miles of insecurities wondering if I’m not a good enough daughter or if he stopped loving my mother or if true love was never real and although I had been taught marriage was my purpose, it was what I believed would make me happy, maybe rings aren’t enough to stay in love and maybe people’s feelings change and maybe no one actually has a “one true love” and that this purpose I had been taught was really an endless wild goose chase that only lead to broken families and lost souls. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because sometimes I still wonder why I fell into an abyss of toxicity at such a young age. And when I say wonder I don’t mean a trivial ponder, I mean I contemplate every possible reason why the person who I once believed held the universe in her eyes would lie to my face, why she never kissed me in public and our love was always a secret, why she valued girls with blue hair but my blonde hair was not good enough, why I had to hide bruises from my family when I was still in high school or more importantly, why at the time, I thought I deserved them. These thoughts, this lingering paranoia that I am undeserving of healthy love, they muddy my interpretations of real life and distort reality and effect my relationships. My doctor would call these intrusive thoughts, my best friend would tell me they’re symptoms of PTSD, but I have come to realize that I’ve been burned and I am damaged and I hope to god I can recover. But you, Oh god, you You can write this poem. You can be my safety net while I’m free falling in love. You can be the one to listen to my mental tilt-a-whirls, you can be the one that introduces my body and my heart, you can be the one that calms the storms in my mind when I’m questioning the love I’m deserving of. You are the one who makes sure I fall asleep in my bed after drunk nights, you are the one that still sees my value after acknowledging my flaws. You can write this poem.
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Jun 12, 2017
Jun 12, 2017 at 12:33 AM UTC
I Can't Write This Poem
I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because the last time I opened up to someone artistically they told me it was pretty dark and I should keep it to myself. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because I was raised in a culture that was anti love and pro meaningless *** I saw endless commercials about movies that glamorize a lifestyle in which your body is fulfilled but your heart is ignored and at that impressionable age I learned my heart came second but my allure came first and the less I cared that happier I would be and I carried that belief around with me the way I used to carry around a Bible as a child. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because of the time that I opened my father’s phone to reveal a family secret I would hold to this day against my own moral instincts unraveling miles of insecurities wondering if I’m not a good enough daughter or if he stopped loving my mother or if true love was never real and although I had been taught marriage was my purpose, it was what I believed would make me happy, maybe rings aren’t enough to stay in love and maybe people’s feelings change and maybe no one actually has a “one true love” and that this purpose I had been taught was really an endless wild goose chase that only lead to broken families and lost souls. I can’t write this poem I can’t write this poem because sometimes I still wonder why I fell into an abyss of toxicity at such a young age. And when I say wonder I don’t mean a trivial ponder, I mean I contemplate every possible reason why the person who I once believed held the universe in her eyes would lie to my face, why she never kissed me in public and our love was always a secret, why she valued girls with blue hair but my blonde hair was not good enough, why I had to hide bruises from my family when I was still in high school or more importantly, why at the time, I thought I deserved them. These thoughts, this lingering paranoia that I am undeserving of healthy love, they muddy my interpretations of real life and distort reality and effect my relationships. My doctor would call these intrusive thoughts, my best friend would tell me they’re symptoms of PTSD, but I have come to realize that I’ve been burned and I am damaged and I hope to god I can recover. But you, Oh god, you You can write this poem. You can be my safety net while I’m free falling in love. You can be the one to listen to my mental tilt-a-whirls, you can be the one that introduces my body and my heart, you can be the one that calms the storms in my mind when I’m questioning the love I’m deserving of. You are the one who makes sure I fall asleep in my bed after drunk nights, you are the one that still sees my value after acknowledging my flaws. You can write this poem.
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imagine an underground network of rapists preying on tourist & local girls; having an agreement w/ the pimps & cops [same]; the tourist guides leading the ladies of all types, mostly young, stupid & white - blonde is better; local girls hitting puberty, getting dragged into the den at twelve get a choice, if they live; the dens filled w/ liquor & drugs; partying a little or just jumping her, dragging her to the open floor; she wakes up naked, thankfully not dead, her purse nearby; she goes to meet her new Desi bf at the bazaar where he introduces her to his friends; that night the same thing happens; it happens for a week then a month, then she helps the gang get other girls into it; it goes on all summer, & on into another summer, the winter filled w/ hot springs & expensive dates on the paved side of the street; Bollywood stars in American cars paying her **** who pays her coyote who pays the cop to get her to Europe on a tourist visa to work an exclusive Parisian Brothel
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Jul 19, 2018
Jul 19, 2018 at 6:32 AM UTC
the good rapists [a prostitute's tale]
I am a dramatized china doll, but I never rouge my knees. The MC introduces me as Scarlett. Lulu embraces me as we saunter off the platform.  Whistles follow my footsteps digging into my brain, fermenting, to strong wine. Gentlemen enter the club to leer at cabaret girls dancing in lace. Some are drawn to the boys of the club, the ones in the dark corners with kohl-rimmed eyes and eager kisses. From their seats in the dimness, the audience fails to notice rips in my blouse, cigarette butts smudged out in the wings.  No one sees the ***** face powder spread out among the lighted mirrors, overused, my own makeup dried out. Their giggles and applause keep the club alive, filled with dead grins from dinner to dawn. Drum roll—my turn.   We rid them of their troubles.
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Nov 18, 2014
Nov 18, 2014 at 9:40 PM UTC
Wir Sagen Willkommen
I am unsure of the geology of where you’re from. I expect there exists shelves and sheaths pale grey-yellow like serum in the blood and rocks resembling sun-weathered lobster carapaces. all of this enclosed by a festoon of green pine— its regalia cut sonic and naked wrung and wrung again by august. on the edge a cabin is hemmed on the skirt of ocean— spikes of molding logs propped and resting akimbo. a wave comes in. a wave goes out. a wave stays to shake your hand. introduces itself as sensate verge and wonderment. home. I can only imagine what it is for you.
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Aug 10, 2017
Aug 10, 2017 at 10:47 AM UTC
home
Her hands are shaking. Trembling, trembling as the box moves closer to her reach. Her heart is racing just as fast as she used to everyday after school when she ran from the school bullies. Her heart is pumping blood just as her wrists do after she introduces them to a blade. Her heart is slowly being mended just like the reconciliation of her relationship with her psychotic sister. Her hands are shaking so bad she can't make out the outline of them in this dimly-lit room. The candle light ricochets off the walls. All she can think about is how he has stood beside her this whole time. The room smells of cigarettes, which reminds her of the first time she met him. That night at the corner liquor store where she went after her grandad died. Trying to drown the pain by drowning herself in pills and alcohol. She was approached by a man who smelt of death who tried to steal her money, and if he got any further, her virginity. Just as the man went to put his hands on her, the boy stepped up and protected her. That trend continued for years as he protected not only her, but their love as well. She knew she had finally found something worth loving truly for. No more hiding who she truly was behind drugs, lies, and a noose hung ready in her closet. She realized that he made her complete. She'd walk to the end of the earth for him and he'd crawl with broken legs all the world around to see her. But as the bills piled high and the eviction notices multiplied by the hundreds, they didn't know how to move on. She turned back to the drugs and the pills as she knew she was drowning, Drowning deeper and deeper. Waiting to feel his hand plunge deep in the water to save her life. And he'd do it every time. She realized that he took her sky high with his love. This would soon overcome all her addictions, leaving her only addicted to his love. She could barely breathe as her hands touched the box. By now she was surprised they hadn't fallen off from trembling, Trembling so much. As she opened the box, her breath rapidly started to leave her body. She could feel herself going numb. She couldn't speak. As he pulled the ring from the box, her body shook more and more from excitement and shock. He asked for her hand in marriage, and she started to cry with joy. After they kissed he whispered, "You've always been my addiction."
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Jan 13, 2014
Jan 13, 2014 at 7:42 PM UTC
I Would Be Flattened By A Steamroller Just So We Can Both Fit Into One Grave Together
Her hands are shaking. Trembling, trembling as the box moves closer to her reach. Her heart is racing just as fast as she used to everyday after school when she ran from the school bullies. Her heart is pumping blood just as her wrists do after she introduces them to a blade. Her heart is slowly being mended just like the reconciliation of her relationship with her psychotic sister. Her hands are shaking so bad she can't make out the outline of them in this dimly-lit room. The candle light ricochets off the walls. All she can think about is how he has stood beside her this whole time. The room smells of cigarettes, which reminds her of the first time she met him. That night at the corner liquor store where she went after her grandad died. Trying to drown the pain by drowning herself in pills and alcohol. She was approached by a man who smelt of death who tried to steal her money, and if he got any further, her virginity. Just as the man went to put his hands on her, the boy stepped up and protected her. That trend continued for years as he protected not only her, but their love as well. She knew she had finally found something worth loving truly for. No more hiding who she truly was behind drugs, lies, and a noose hung ready in her closet. She realized that he made her complete. She'd walk to the end of the earth for him and he'd crawl with broken legs all the world around to see her. But as the bills piled high and the eviction notices multiplied by the hundreds, they didn't know how to move on. She turned back to the drugs and the pills as she knew she was drowning, Drowning deeper and deeper. Waiting to feel his hand plunge deep in the water to save her life. And he'd do it every time. She realized that he took her sky high with his love. This would soon overcome all her addictions, leaving her only addicted to his love. She could barely breathe as her hands touched the box. By now she was surprised they hadn't fallen off from trembling, Trembling so much. As she opened the box, her breath rapidly started to leave her body. She could feel herself going numb. She couldn't speak. As he pulled the ring from the box, her body shook more and more from excitement and shock. He asked for her hand in marriage, and she started to cry with joy. After they kissed he whispered, "You've always been my addiction."
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This spiteful poem has no title. That doesn't mean it's not entitled to a title it just means, it hasn't got one. It's not in any way vital to title a poem is it? Without a title, would a rival thieve the poem? Without a title, it means there is no subject matter. Does that matter? I guess at a recital a title helps, it introduces the poem to an audience. Let's face it, the poem is not going to get suicidal if I don't give it a title! It's not going to go all homicidal, suicidal, or self harm. Will it sue me for libel? Am I being frightful? I think it's delightful that this poem has no title. Maybe, what I should have titled this poem, was "Poet being idle".
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May 3, 2014
May 3, 2014 at 4:33 PM UTC
This poem has no title
When he is hundreds of miles away When he is right in front of you When he forgets to talk to you When he simply says hi When he kisses another girl When he surfaces in your memory When he encourages you to meet new people When he wants to meet up again When he has to go back When he forgets you as days turn into years When he speaks to you less than his family does When he tells you he loves you When he introduces you as his friend When he introduces you as a girl he used to know
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Dec 19, 2014
Dec 19, 2014 at 10:40 PM UTC
Please Try And Remain Calm
Reciting your enchanting beauty My life swifts from river mode to sea Where it is deeper and yet empty Which drift/drives my life to agony The wind of obsessity carries me To a place I always dreamt to be Placing my head in your lap I see; A future where we could be happy But gradually the dream gets over As the obsessity wind gets slower Revisiting the reality again Introduces me to a familiar pain The pain is not of losing you You were not a reward to be won But since now you're gone I feel a friend is departing too With shallow breath and watery eye Trembling limps and left with a sigh The heart beneath nearly die The moment you said, goodbye... I don't need drugs To ruin my life With an emotional outburst Its hard to survive
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Jun 20, 2015
Jun 20, 2015 at 1:17 PM UTC
Goodbyes... are never good!!!
Take a look at a flower that we adore And observe this precious creation to the core. Those tiny petals free themselves from the bud And bend towards the ray of light Workshipping sun to stay on sight Though sunlight is absent at night. Day by day this flower blooms Revealing its beauty even in gloom The production of honey sweet scent Introduces us of its own patent Attracting those diligent bees Flirting with vibrant butterflies To generously share its honey product Cause life is all about giving without doubt! A blooming flower; a genuine wonder Asking us to thoroughly ponder How significant its existence in nature Teaching us not to stop hoping for the future As this flower will not stop blooming Until its growth has fully matured.
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Feb 14, 2019
Feb 14, 2019 at 11:07 PM UTC
A Blooming Flower ♡
Feeling wanted could be evidence of friends Until their loyalty is finished taunting Knowing family is what introduces hope Hope is what tempts someone to trust the mystery of friendships will always stand in grey The taste of rejection is putrid and sour The aftertaste is bitter and lasting The death of a friendship pierces even the numbest hearts Lukewarm friends will never last Never stay true or care to look from your vantage point Fed up friendships destroy all innocence The scars still have a pulse when I'm around them Chaos has no place in this lyric, but it is here Fighting for freedom like the carrot on the stick If no one's caring enough let's get this over with Maybe all the smoke that follows them will be a warning Maybe these raw wounds will destroy and repeated mistakes Friendships are Loyal, Trustworthy, and ready to compromise NOT disposable
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Mar 10, 2011
Mar 10, 2011 at 10:14 AM UTC
Disposable Friends (A Diary)
Trapped within this heat there’s an Ocean of thoughts defeating me. Suicide has come and gone even death Is confused. I am awake yet the whole Of ikasi is half-asleep. Conflict between races: black, white, yellow, I mix these colors and get red for bloodshed Bombarding my mind as I choose my artillery: Butcher’s knife or bread knife? Mxm **** it, I opt to Load my machine gun as I take no prisoners. I live only by one rule “spare not the feelings of those Who have none.” As my stu-stu-stu-stuttering riffle goes “tat’ i cover lova,” They blaze to bushes with rampaging speed and seeing as my weight Constitutes a majority of ten, I choose to be democratic and side with its Vote, by not running but instead sending a hail of bullets. Voetsek, Voetsek and Voetsek I say!! As dusk breaks into dawn I am shattered into reality as prison introduces me to myself. I started shaking like the last shivering leaf on a dying tree and came to realize: The person whom I slaughtered was not only my neighbor, but was also my brother and if I have to suffer for my brother whom they call ikwerekere to survive, then I say “give me pain till I die!”.
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Oct 29, 2013
Oct 29, 2013 at 8:18 AM UTC
Mzansi' reality
A tiny man walks in the class, And says, "Hello". A crowd of staring college kids, Say "Think its time to go". "there is no class today, loads of time to sleep". Then in comes, Mr. Shrivastava and says "Guys why do you leave?" "This is your new faculty, he will be taking your class. Be on time from tomorrow, or from your grades you part". A look of shock crosses the face, No one speaks a word. Trying to let the fact sink in, And someone in the back says: "He is weird". He comes and introduces himself, Asks our names too. Out of the thirty six, how many he remembers, is a question though. And on with the class he goes, Showing pictures on the screen. Showing logos and *** hole ads, Untill a hairy scene. A boy interrupts and asks: "Whats the meaning of this?" Wham! goes the teachers heart, He was not expecting this! So, he thinks about it for a moment, no wanting to appear a fool. Sure he must have taken then pictures from somewhere, And was acting ****** cool. He gave us topics, And shooed us away, saying... "Lets meet on tuesday!"
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Oct 1, 2012
Oct 1, 2012 at 1:08 PM UTC
The tiny Teacher
I’m at the acorn, a coffee shop, trying to write a poem but my mind is blank. I got here early enough to get one of the comfy chairs - yeah, I’m a self-indulgent monster - and I’m not getting up until my having to *** becomes a medical emergency. What rhymes with blank.. Spank? THAT would take this poem in a WHOLE new direction - maybe it needs a new direction. Why does coffee that comes with latte-art, which costs 20 times more than what you can have in your dorm room, taste so much better? A “Hi,” reveals a man standing in front of me, looking down and smiling - I assume he’s smiling because we’re all masked. I look up, blinking, and give him a questioning look and a head tilt - because we are masked. People at tables and chairs near us look up from their zoo of electronic devices to give us the onceover. There’s a keenness to him that makes me want him to go away and I begin to feel a nagging trepidation. “Apparently I didn’t make much of an impression,” he says. He’s right and frankly, I’m thinking we should keep it that way. “We met at the Pundits party a couple of weeks ago?” He says, the inflection of his whole sentence rising, like a question. Some background… To her friends, Lisa being gorgeous is everyday and unremarkable, but take her out somewhere and she draws all eyes, like you drove up in a growling, fluorescent red Ferrari. She’s invited everywhere (she calls them “shiny ornament” invites) and one afternoon, as we’re coming back to the dorm a girl comes up to us - to her - hands her a ½ slip of paper and strikes up a conversation. She introduces herself and runs through the usual, “What year are you in, where ya from.. bla bla. Then she asks, “Would you ever consider attending a naked party - have you heard of them?” To my surprise, Lisa smiles, brushes the hair out of her face and says, “I’d think about it,” which makes me laugh nervously, “You would?” I interrupt. The girl says that the paper is an open invitation from “The Pundits”, and that there’s a URL on it with details. “Just bring the slip,” she says, touching the paper in Lisa’s hand. Guess where I “met” this guy? In an instant, I’m tense, and if I were a fox, I’d gnaw-off my paw to get out of there.
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Feb 24, 2022
Feb 24, 2022 at 7:52 AM UTC
the acorn
I’m at the acorn, a coffee shop, trying to write a poem but my mind is blank. I got here early enough to get one of the comfy chairs - yeah, I’m a self-indulgent monster - and I’m not getting up until my having to *** becomes a medical emergency. What rhymes with blank.. Spank? THAT would take this poem in a WHOLE new direction - maybe it needs a new direction. Why does coffee that comes with latte-art, which costs 20 times more than what you can have in your dorm room, taste so much better? A “Hi,” reveals a man standing in front of me, looking down and smiling - I assume he’s smiling because we’re all masked. I look up, blinking, and give him a questioning look and a head tilt - because we are masked. People at tables and chairs near us look up from their zoo of electronic devices to give us the onceover. There’s a keenness to him that makes me want him to go away and I begin to feel a nagging trepidation. “Apparently I didn’t make much of an impression,” he says. He’s right and frankly, I’m thinking we should keep it that way. “We met at the Pundits party a couple of weeks ago?” He says, the inflection of his whole sentence rising, like a question. Some background… To her friends, Lisa being gorgeous is everyday and unremarkable, but take her out somewhere and she draws all eyes, like you drove up in a growling, fluorescent red Ferrari. She’s invited everywhere (she calls them “shiny ornament” invites) and one afternoon, as we’re coming back to the dorm a girl comes up to us - to her - hands her a ½ slip of paper and strikes up a conversation. She introduces herself and runs through the usual, “What year are you in, where ya from.. bla bla. Then she asks, “Would you ever consider attending a naked party - have you heard of them?” To my surprise, Lisa smiles, brushes the hair out of her face and says, “I’d think about it,” which makes me laugh nervously, “You would?” I interrupt. The girl says that the paper is an open invitation from “The Pundits”, and that there’s a URL on it with details. “Just bring the slip,” she says, touching the paper in Lisa’s hand. Guess where I “met” this guy? In an instant, I’m tense, and if I were a fox, I’d gnaw-off my paw to get out of there.
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perhaps I was twenty-six she looked me over and soon enough the walk to her place was zip, zap, zoop; meaning, although the barman called me over to tell me she had recently stabbed or had tried to stab a bartender from down the street, my only concern was another mandrax, a joint of kashmir hashish with thick ***** streaks and, most certainly, a new escape; a new woman the floor (a penthouse apartment, mind you): much water from an overflowing sink...then, there's the layer of dust on the dishes of the dish rack...and, not to forget, the four or five frightening knives, all very reachable then, she introduces me to her first jumping up and down episode--hollering, "you're my father! I must **** you!" how I spent two or was it three days with her dumbfounds me these days...the fool, me, I remember, first turned off the water and mopped dry the floor...the miracle of how my hand awoke and grabbed her wrist, with the blade's tip an inch from my heart, will have to wait another session with Harmony --that She may reach into my mind and pull out a more clear version of the epilogue of this is-it-a-poem which I've written in numerous other versions over the years ~~ ..(C)2011/2012 Spiros Zafiris ..channeled; spirit Harmony; reaching into the poet's heart ~~
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Nov 3, 2012
Nov 3, 2012 at 4:10 AM UTC
Another Version
I placed my bread to heat for just five seconds-- behold: when I came for it, it wasn't alone. A mayfly had set up camp (so to speak) with my wheat bread, my most favored Amish-baked, sliced-before-my-own eyes bread; and when I say it "set up camp," I do not mean anything pleasant.  I do mean six thin legs sprawled long and broken when discovered and perhaps some melted insides; who's to say? Something turned inside of me and I'm certain I grimaced at least a little, and took my plate back, thinking, disturbed just slightly.  How had I not seen the fly?  It couldn't have touched the bread--poor thing-- just rested there, unknowing, to be slaughtered. *"Mom...Mom...Ahh, uhh, Mom!  Mom?" (mother assesses circumstances, unceremoniously takes a napkin to my victim, and introduces his corpse to the garbage) "He probably wasn't in there when I...right?" --"It probably was." "But five seconds couldn't have killed him." I know I am wrong as I feel the warm grains of my prize. (mother gives a long look and says...) --"If it heated the bread, I'm sure it heated the bug."* I took my bounty anyway--the bread, that is, mind you-- and went to eat it absentmindedly, but found that now impossible.  Sigh.  I also found myself staring, long and hard, then, at half of a piece of glorious, Heaven-breathed wheat bread, and suddenly realized that I could not discern whether or not I was enjoying it.  ****** And then I tried to reassure myself by chiding inwardly, "You're just afraid of insects irrationally," but maybe I actually felt that the blood of an innocent life was on my hands. *Why are they so stupid? I ask no one really, fighting revulsion, grasping for blame.* Alas, I finished eating but felt rightly robbed of some essential part of the experience. Yet, such is life.
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Mar 16, 2012
Mar 16, 2012 at 8:36 PM UTC
When I Cooked a Mayfly
I placed my bread to heat for just five seconds-- behold: when I came for it, it wasn't alone. A mayfly had set up camp (so to speak) with my wheat bread, my most favored Amish-baked, sliced-before-my-own eyes bread; and when I say it "set up camp," I do not mean anything pleasant.  I do mean six thin legs sprawled long and broken when discovered and perhaps some melted insides; who's to say? Something turned inside of me and I'm certain I grimaced at least a little, and took my plate back, thinking, disturbed just slightly.  How had I not seen the fly?  It couldn't have touched the bread--poor thing-- just rested there, unknowing, to be slaughtered. *"Mom...Mom...Ahh, uhh, Mom!  Mom?" (mother assesses circumstances, unceremoniously takes a napkin to my victim, and introduces his corpse to the garbage) "He probably wasn't in there when I...right?" --"It probably was." "But five seconds couldn't have killed him." I know I am wrong as I feel the warm grains of my prize. (mother gives a long look and says...) --"If it heated the bread, I'm sure it heated the bug."* I took my bounty anyway--the bread, that is, mind you-- and went to eat it absentmindedly, but found that now impossible.  Sigh.  I also found myself staring, long and hard, then, at half of a piece of glorious, Heaven-breathed wheat bread, and suddenly realized that I could not discern whether or not I was enjoying it.  ****** And then I tried to reassure myself by chiding inwardly, "You're just afraid of insects irrationally," but maybe I actually felt that the blood of an innocent life was on my hands. *Why are they so stupid? I ask no one really, fighting revulsion, grasping for blame.* Alas, I finished eating but felt rightly robbed of some essential part of the experience. Yet, such is life.
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I couldn’t have no bunch ‘a “Baby-Daddies” hanging around my life Jugglin’ ‘em- and tryin’ a keep track of What each was supposed to do for his And when And how And how much Naw…that ain’t my style ~ I’m the lady that he introduces to other ladies in his life I’m the lady that he takes to dinner with his mama I’m the lady who Can stand up under his friend-girl’s scrutiny and Bear the weight of his auntie’s infamous stare I got Way too much class to have too many babies With too many different daddies Right? You understand what I mean… ~ So when I looked up And I had ****** up And was knocked up By another woman’s husband… (With my classy self) Well… that just would not do at all I mean I may be PRO-Choice But in truth I had NO choice Right? You understand what I mean…? ~ Hell, Too many kids and girl might Fool around and end up a “pogo stick” And I ain’t no **** pogo stick… You know… “Fun to bounce around on- But no self-respecting grown man Will be seen in public with one…” I had NO choice… Right? ~ It wadn’t so bad… Once I got past the Nightmares of vacuums and clogged ******* sounds and the pain in my guts and the bleedin’ ‘til I chafed and the crying ‘til I puked and the sore leaking ******* and the   Hole in my soul… It wadn’t so bad… ~ And it had to be done Right? ~ Besides, I lived through it… And in the end-   it’s all about ME You understand what I mean… You hear what I’m screamin’? You hear What AAAAHM SCREEEAAAMING!!!?
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May 16, 2013
May 16, 2013 at 9:12 AM UTC
Irony Of Choice
I couldn’t have no bunch ‘a “Baby-Daddies” hanging around my life Jugglin’ ‘em- and tryin’ a keep track of What each was supposed to do for his And when And how And how much Naw…that ain’t my style ~ I’m the lady that he introduces to other ladies in his life I’m the lady that he takes to dinner with his mama I’m the lady who Can stand up under his friend-girl’s scrutiny and Bear the weight of his auntie’s infamous stare I got Way too much class to have too many babies With too many different daddies Right? You understand what I mean… ~ So when I looked up And I had ****** up And was knocked up By another woman’s husband… (With my classy self) Well… that just would not do at all I mean I may be PRO-Choice But in truth I had NO choice Right? You understand what I mean…? ~ Hell, Too many kids and girl might Fool around and end up a “pogo stick” And I ain’t no **** pogo stick… You know… “Fun to bounce around on- But no self-respecting grown man Will be seen in public with one…” I had NO choice… Right? ~ It wadn’t so bad… Once I got past the Nightmares of vacuums and clogged ******* sounds and the pain in my guts and the bleedin’ ‘til I chafed and the crying ‘til I puked and the sore leaking ******* and the   Hole in my soul… It wadn’t so bad… ~ And it had to be done Right? ~ Besides, I lived through it… And in the end-   it’s all about ME You understand what I mean… You hear what I’m screamin’? You hear What AAAAHM SCREEEAAAMING!!!?
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I meet a woman in the story I introduce myself as a writer She introduces herself as the character I write about She's so smart I really like smart people She tells about her life She is happy to share every experience She's so beautiful She doesn't like the word beauty Beauty only makes things that come to be gone I understand it I agree with her opinion In the first paragraph, I introduce myself In that paragraph, she also invites me to enter her world I write about her She accepts my writing I write all about her She reads herself I continue to write the second paragraph She says I need to stop I ask, why? She says she is tired I ask her to rest She agrees I'm writing again And I realize She's just my imagination I miss her so much I've never done this before And I go back to write about her But I can no longer find her She is no longer in my writing I think too much about her
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Feb 28, 2021
Feb 28, 2021 at 4:19 PM UTC
I meet a woman in the story
There’s a girl with a purple complexion, Black eyes and stark white pupils. Blue and white feathers atop her head. She resides in the dimension within brown sky In which the teal galaxy collapses star by star. It unravels, atom by atom, forcibly ripped apart. By a creator so elusive even the dead are ignorant. The puppeteer left Pinocchio to rot and decay. Salt water travels down his wood-carved face. The girl cries along with the soulless rib of tree. She introduces Lord Pathos to his hard knock heart. “Neither ethos, nor pathos can decipher this knot.” Only father time has the power to dismantle the rope. Her fingers grow weak, maneuver until they break. Time arrives late; the moss and fungus return home. There is nothing less tragic; than the death of a puppet.
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May 5, 2011
May 5, 2011 at 3:02 PM UTC
The Unfortunate Death of a Purple Puppet
i live in a brightness of worlds paper-thin a screenshot of malleability introduces my reckoning today, the serpent lays hold of the egg and starvation is kept at bay belly full cut the cord the descendants hang heavy all my life i've wanted a reason to die well tonight, I hear it in the sirens... I hear it in the coyotes... I hear it in my soul... tonight, I hear it in plain sight-- as clear as a daisy i was allowed to slow down to see my life in a different gear to venture a guess towards life in payment of a different path i was hungry and hung-up i was held-up with my pants down i was a man living his life in the modern mouse-trap and nobody cares about the man in the modern mouse-trap forget about the cheese... find your own way out
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Jan 16, 2021
Jan 16, 2021 at 10:06 PM UTC
a bit o' cheese
dear little me, you’re taught that if a boy is mean to you, he likes you. you watch all these movies and read all these books about jerks and scumbags who fall for good girls and subsequently ‘act right’ for them, and only them. you think this will happen to you. please don’t date the ‘bad’ boys. no, the boy of your dreams is a suburban drummer with hair the color of the earth, and the kind of laugh that makes you smile, even if you’re trying as hard as you can to be mad at him (which you never really are). you listen to him. everything he has to say, you listen. even if you heard it all before, you listen, because nothing makes you happier than the sound of his voice when he’s talking about something that interests him, or how his day went, or something that made him laugh. and he listens to you. everything you say, no matter how dumb it is, or how much you stumble over your words, or ramble on about things that aren’t very interesting, he listens, and he doesn’t think you’re stupid, and he doesn’t think you’re annoying, and he never ignores you. ever. he introduces you to his parents on valentine’s day, and doesn’t make you feel like you owe him anything. he buys you that bear you hinted at wanting the week before, which you end up sleeping with every night, and aren’t even ashamed to admit. he naps with you, which you’ve always dreamed of doing with a boyfriend, because, let’s face it: you’re boring, and you sleep more than a sloth. he’s a heavy sleeper, which makes you laugh, and you poke him or rest your head on his chest or whisper things to or about him while he sleeps because he won’t know about it anyway. he gets you out of the house. even though all you ever want to do is lie in bed and sleep, or watch netflix and drive yourself insane from isolating yourself so much, he gets you out of the house. he gets you interested in things you convinced yourself a long time ago not to try. he shows you things you never had the energy to look for. sometimes, you’ll find yourself scared, because your anxiety woke you up and told you that he doesn’t like you anymore, or that you’re annoying him, or that he’s leaving, and you ask him, almost every day, ‘do you still like me’, and he never seems bothered by this, even though you swear he is, and he always says ‘yes’, and you always smile and you'll find life a little less heavy. even if, for one reason or another, the two of you don’t last forever, know that this is one of the happiest times of your life, and that you were okay, which is all the two of us ever wanted. you’ll still date those boys who hurt your feelings and make you feel small. you and i both know that you can’t resist the temptation to see if the books and movies are true, though, and you’ll end up sad. you’ll ***** up. you’ll mistreat the people who care about you, and you’ll hate yourself, for a little while, but, the boy of your dreams will be there. he always was. that’s the boy you give your time and attention to; that’s the boy you choose: the boy who saw you at your lowest, and still chose you. sincerely, bigger you
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Apr 2, 2016
Apr 2, 2016 at 2:26 AM UTC
for cooper
dear little me, you’re taught that if a boy is mean to you, he likes you. you watch all these movies and read all these books about jerks and scumbags who fall for good girls and subsequently ‘act right’ for them, and only them. you think this will happen to you. please don’t date the ‘bad’ boys. no, the boy of your dreams is a suburban drummer with hair the color of the earth, and the kind of laugh that makes you smile, even if you’re trying as hard as you can to be mad at him (which you never really are). you listen to him. everything he has to say, you listen. even if you heard it all before, you listen, because nothing makes you happier than the sound of his voice when he’s talking about something that interests him, or how his day went, or something that made him laugh. and he listens to you. everything you say, no matter how dumb it is, or how much you stumble over your words, or ramble on about things that aren’t very interesting, he listens, and he doesn’t think you’re stupid, and he doesn’t think you’re annoying, and he never ignores you. ever. he introduces you to his parents on valentine’s day, and doesn’t make you feel like you owe him anything. he buys you that bear you hinted at wanting the week before, which you end up sleeping with every night, and aren’t even ashamed to admit. he naps with you, which you’ve always dreamed of doing with a boyfriend, because, let’s face it: you’re boring, and you sleep more than a sloth. he’s a heavy sleeper, which makes you laugh, and you poke him or rest your head on his chest or whisper things to or about him while he sleeps because he won’t know about it anyway. he gets you out of the house. even though all you ever want to do is lie in bed and sleep, or watch netflix and drive yourself insane from isolating yourself so much, he gets you out of the house. he gets you interested in things you convinced yourself a long time ago not to try. he shows you things you never had the energy to look for. sometimes, you’ll find yourself scared, because your anxiety woke you up and told you that he doesn’t like you anymore, or that you’re annoying him, or that he’s leaving, and you ask him, almost every day, ‘do you still like me’, and he never seems bothered by this, even though you swear he is, and he always says ‘yes’, and you always smile and you'll find life a little less heavy. even if, for one reason or another, the two of you don’t last forever, know that this is one of the happiest times of your life, and that you were okay, which is all the two of us ever wanted. you’ll still date those boys who hurt your feelings and make you feel small. you and i both know that you can’t resist the temptation to see if the books and movies are true, though, and you’ll end up sad. you’ll ***** up. you’ll mistreat the people who care about you, and you’ll hate yourself, for a little while, but, the boy of your dreams will be there. he always was. that’s the boy you give your time and attention to; that’s the boy you choose: the boy who saw you at your lowest, and still chose you. sincerely, bigger you
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A man of glue When a conversation is due assures noone is blue As he is the man of glue A man of glue, or glue guy is you rather To him you are not some other Instead you are just another Friendly, interesting and unique brother A man of glue, who introduces the world of poetry And can write poems about glue that the world has never seen He's introduced people such as me To poetry deserving of making history The man of glue, though he is unusual Will change your dull life, and give it renewal One minute he's talking about anime, the next steel beams and jet fuel He's is known by many other titles, though not as memorable as the man in glue Perhaps one day he will realise, and read this poem From a person who knows him Will he know that it's me? Let's just wait and see
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Nov 10, 2017
Nov 10, 2017 at 5:18 AM UTC
The man of Glue
Can you settle for more or less if today was your last day And what would be your retort if you were denied another chance? How life introduces sobriety and the impending inevitability The interstice and it’s ingress that encloses before your eyes The demanding pouring of importune time That soothing allaying sighs that evoke incalculable alleviation If someone were to impart as they closed their eyes As they died with a commital of happenings with not enough time As to burden you with the impression of only one chance It would seem and with the impending inevitability Of your death which would subito compromise the day A bearding contrivance plight of obligations engagement and commital no alleviation An abecedarian dossier concealed for a long time All this time the inevitable coinciding incident only for your eyes The emotional habituation was of quotidian rendition each day Of how trivial things take us on a dance with only one life one chance With your attention and awareness on the answer the inevitability Of what you are becoming with each passing second for each Thought which transpires and no alleviation Is there an epoch a replicating limn a depiction of our linear time As we perpetrate and pursue progressively for our alleviation Engaged to staying the course the day Stirring closing in on our deliberate objective determined chance Which remained for a terse duration from the inevitability In which at the atrium of this erstwhile portage of a duvet to belabor To stifle firsthand with your eyes The variant from this domicile from this residence on a day Is the vagabond to perish in yonder with no alleviation Once man was a brute dullard or a curmudgeon spinster at a time Which offers a mute disconnection ragged miscreant the inevi Naivety or absent mindedness to somnambulist and its silhouette Notwithstanding change The quagmire and it’s nightmare the ingrate delighted with coined Shunned eyes Reputation with a flagrant obscene defilement galvanizing The alleviation At the heart of this lies another chance A precocious inevitability A man who lies to die another day The annihilation in desperate want for from those argent eyes To the starving newfangled optimism which in its sheen Shines sunshine dulling the ocular orbs of time Forwithal in befuddlement remain here The time if infringement to comprehend the volatile vertigo And the inevitability The harrowing of hell Glance at the shinning suns in her eyes intention considers change After you heal and left are the cicatrix Will you plunge further for alleviation Or on the intent of regression once again From long ago to another distant day.
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Jan 23, 2019
Jan 23, 2019 at 9:20 PM UTC
Destination
Can you settle for more or less if today was your last day And what would be your retort if you were denied another chance? How life introduces sobriety and the impending inevitability The interstice and it’s ingress that encloses before your eyes The demanding pouring of importune time That soothing allaying sighs that evoke incalculable alleviation If someone were to impart as they closed their eyes As they died with a commital of happenings with not enough time As to burden you with the impression of only one chance It would seem and with the impending inevitability Of your death which would subito compromise the day A bearding contrivance plight of obligations engagement and commital no alleviation An abecedarian dossier concealed for a long time All this time the inevitable coinciding incident only for your eyes The emotional habituation was of quotidian rendition each day Of how trivial things take us on a dance with only one life one chance With your attention and awareness on the answer the inevitability Of what you are becoming with each passing second for each Thought which transpires and no alleviation Is there an epoch a replicating limn a depiction of our linear time As we perpetrate and pursue progressively for our alleviation Engaged to staying the course the day Stirring closing in on our deliberate objective determined chance Which remained for a terse duration from the inevitability In which at the atrium of this erstwhile portage of a duvet to belabor To stifle firsthand with your eyes The variant from this domicile from this residence on a day Is the vagabond to perish in yonder with no alleviation Once man was a brute dullard or a curmudgeon spinster at a time Which offers a mute disconnection ragged miscreant the inevi Naivety or absent mindedness to somnambulist and its silhouette Notwithstanding change The quagmire and it’s nightmare the ingrate delighted with coined Shunned eyes Reputation with a flagrant obscene defilement galvanizing The alleviation At the heart of this lies another chance A precocious inevitability A man who lies to die another day The annihilation in desperate want for from those argent eyes To the starving newfangled optimism which in its sheen Shines sunshine dulling the ocular orbs of time Forwithal in befuddlement remain here The time if infringement to comprehend the volatile vertigo And the inevitability The harrowing of hell Glance at the shinning suns in her eyes intention considers change After you heal and left are the cicatrix Will you plunge further for alleviation Or on the intent of regression once again From long ago to another distant day.
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